What The Dresses Know book launch

A book launch celebrating the publication of What The Dresses Know by Sophie Oliver, published by Manchester University Press. The book offers a new account of pioneering modernist women and their radical experiments, told through the clothes they made and wore, from a dress Vanessa Bell rescued from the London Blitz to Frida Kahlo's huipiles and a waistcoat embroidered for Gertrude Stein by Alice B. Toklas. Using these garments, Sophie Oliver, a distinctive new voice in cultural criticism, explores how modernist women used clothes to think through the contradictions of the modern world and to make history during years of tumultuous change.